{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["12"],"submitter":["de-Juan-Ripoll C"],"funding":["Horizon 2020","Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Gobierno de España","Generalitat Valenciana"],"pubmed_abstract":["Risk taking (RT) is a component of the decision-making process in situations that involve uncertainty and in which the probability of each outcome - rewards and/or negative consequences - is already known. The influence of cognitive and emotional processes in decision making may affect how risky situations are addressed. First, inaccurate assessments of situations may constitute a perceptual bias in decision making, which might influence RT. Second, there seems to be consensus that a proneness bias exists, known as risk proneness, which can be defined as the propensity to be attracted to potentially risky activities. In the present study, we take the approach that risk perception and risk proneness affect RT behaviours. The study hypothesises that locus of control, emotion regulation, and "],"journal":["Frontiers in psychology"],"pagination":["562381"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC7982407"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Why Do We Take Risks? Perception of the Situation and Risk Proneness Predict Domain-Specific Risk Taking."],"pmcid":["PMC7982407"],"pubmed_authors":["de-Juan-Ripoll C","Chicchi Giglioli IA","Marin-Morales J","Llanes-Jurado J","Alcaniz M"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Why Do We Take Risks? Perception of the Situation and Risk Proneness Predict Domain-Specific Risk Taking.","description":"Risk taking (RT) is a component of the decision-making process in situations that involve uncertainty and in which the probability of each outcome - rewards and/or negative consequences - is already known. The influence of cognitive and emotional processes in decision making may affect how risky situations are addressed. First, inaccurate assessments of situations may constitute a perceptual bias in decision making, which might influence RT. Second, there seems to be consensus that a proneness bias exists, known as risk proneness, which can be defined as the propensity to be attracted to potentially risky activities. In the present study, we take the approach that risk perception and risk proneness affect RT behaviours. The study hypothesises that locus of control, emotion regulation, and ","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021","modification":"2025-04-20T02:26:08.621Z","creation":"2025-04-20T02:26:08.621Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC7982407","cross_references":{"pubmed":["33762988"],"doi":["10.3389/fpsyg.2021.562381"]}}